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Wandering Alone, Writing the Unknown

Solo RPG

  • Solo RPG Challenge #7

    There are so many ways to set a scene when playing solo. Mythic and many others provide the necessary tools for keeping things fresh and surprising. But there are so many more. This week we are going to be looking to music for our inspiration. Put a playlist on shuffle. The first song that plays Read more

  • Favorite Characters

    I’m going to spend this week examining some of the characters I’ve made to discover if there are any themes or commonalities that I might be able to draw out of them. This isn’t all of them by any means. I selected only the ones which I had played three or more sessions with. Here Read more

  • Solo RPG Challenge #6

    This week we are going to drop into some world building. What happened in the past of a region can have a huge impact on what happens in the now or future of that region. Take a look at this article which argues that a 100 million year old sea has an impact on our Read more

  • Half-way Point

    Two reflection posts back to back might be a lot but I realized after I wrote the last one that we are half way through 2025. So while New England is in a heat wave, I’m inside writing blog posts and playing solo RPGs. I started this blog at the beginning of the year in Read more

  • Solo Challenge #5

    For those of us in the United States, our country’s independence day is celebrated this week on July 4th. Throughout the country people will be grilling, drinking, having friends and family over, which all culminates in a firework display. This week, think about the world you are currently playing in and create a local holiday. Read more

  • June Moon Challenge Reflection

    This month’s challenge was to play games in the Science Fiction genre. I feel that I was successful in this way, as I played three games in that genre, one of which I played twice. I did spend a bit too much of my time working on my pdf library and bookbinding but not so Read more

  • Solo Challenge #4

    For this week’s challenge we are going to create something which almost all solo players need, a random table. But not just any random table try to create a random table around something super specific. Something like Ancient Coins, Pill Shape and/or Color, or Spice Containers. Use whatever die or dice combination suits you and Read more

  • Binding Those PDFs

    As I’ve mentioned in the past I have a fair amount of RPG pdfs and almost always play digitally. I seriously feel limited by my bad handwriting. That said, I do like the feel of a physical object. I love a good journal and a nice pen. Further I’ve found playing digitally with a physical Read more

  • Solo RPG Challenge #3

    This week we are going to play with progress tracks. They are handy to use when solo role playing to give your character some direction and to know how close or far they are from completing their quest. They can be used for tracking resources and the over lap between tracks and clocks is significant, Read more

  • My Adventure into OCR and Indexing

    This is actually the second attempt at writing this post. I first wrote a complete post about how I organize my files and how I attempted at creating a system for indexing each book. But after writing it I started to do some research and figured out how to find which of my 4000 pdfs Read more